An unprivileged attacker can craft a user-space process with a malicious ELF binary containing an out-of-range sh_link field. When root-level dtrace attaches to -- or instruments -- that process (via dtrace -p , pid probes, or USDT), the ELF parser reads heap memory beyond the allocated section cache array without any bounds check. This results in an uninitialized/out-of-bounds heap read that can cause a NULL pointer dereference crash of the dtrace process (DoS), or -- depending on heap layout -- a read-then-use of a garbage pointer controlled by adjacent allocations, providing a foothold toward further exploitation in a privileged context.
CVSS Score
4.4
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-01
An unprivileged attacker can reliably trigger a crash of the dtrace process with a malicious ELF binary due to an integer Divide-by-Zero in Pbuild_file_symtab()
CVSS Score
3.3
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-01
A DTrace component, dtprobed, allows arbitrary file creation through crafted USDT provider names.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-03-16